Browsing: Los Chapitos

In a brutal cartel video from Mazatlán, a captive identifies himself as Jesús Armando Chacón Patiño and claims he was sent by “El Payasín” for Mayito Flaco’s side. His statements, made under captivity, point to a failed push into the port and a public warning from Chapiza.

After the Lambo shooting, the facts didn’t change—the story did. Within hours, competing narratives flooded social media, each designed to redirect blame and control perception. In Mexico’s drug war, misinformation isn’t accidental. It’s a tool, deployed fast, loud, and without regard for truth.

I took my sunglasses off before I shook his hand. Eye contact separates journalists from people who tweet news. I was sitting with some of the most wanted men in Mexico and the United States, surrounded by forty heavily armed sicarios. One wrong expression and I wouldn’t have walked away. This wasn’t myth or rumor. This was real life.

On a clear Sinaloa hillside, masked men stand calm and unhurried, rifles resting easy as the camera rolls. The video, signed by Churras Calabazas of Los Chapitos, uses the setting as its opening statement—a quiet, controlled insult aimed directly at Chapo Isidro, delivered before a single word is spoken.

One flimsy FGR letter turned a Sinaloa kingpin’s safe house into a target. My sources say a senior woman inside Durango’s Fiscalía quietly handed over the address of la casa de los Remedios, home turf of Los Cabrera, just as their Mayo-aligned faction drifted from protected asset to collateral in the war with the Chapitos–CJNG FEU bloc.